Giovanni Greco (1953) - Spazio dimensionale

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Giovanni Greco (1953, Catania) [Italy]
Acrylic enamel on canvas
artist's signature on the front and back;
Certificate of authenticity from the artist
GIOVANNI GRECO was born in Catania, a city where he lives and works. After incomplete studies in biology and further explorations of artistic studies, he enrolled at the Scuola del Nudi in Catania and in 1980 began his painting activity, starting simultaneously from the Magrittean example and later from De Chirico, where it was possible to resolve two apparently contradictory layers, the dream and the objective reality, in a kind of absolute reality.
At the base of his research is a strong drive aimed at solving the great dilemmas of existence and the relationship between self and world, trying to interpret “thought” that sometimes represents undeniable passages—an artwork by the artist Giovanni Greco, ineffable as a means to bring to light the fundamental problems of which our mind does not cease to liberate itself, staging visual coercions, coercions of the soul; further on he is drawn to metaphysical painting and primarily to the works of G. De Chirico, not so much for stylistic choices as for the bearing of interest that manifests in a solid compositional structure; objects, figures and even space become powerful masses given by dense, dark chromatic volumes in a context where time seems arrested and the subjects suspended between the metaphysical influence and neoclassical allusions drawn from past works shaken by time, in an unknown world.
It is the world of the “éndonèxò,” a term coined by the artist (éndon-éxò) where the gaze is clearly directed toward itself and into things, yet at the same time it conveys his desire to make his painting feel closer to the observer’s lived experience, rising from the depths of the soul and gradually replacing, with new dark forces, the clear and simple spaces of reason.